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Theresa May pledges millions to boost UK tourism post-Brexit

British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced a £40 million (around €46.8 million) fund to foster tourism in the U.K., particularly outside of London, promising Britain’s exit from the European Union would create “real opportunities for growth.”

“We will work in close partnership with the tourism industry, to ensure it continues to thrive as negotiations on the U.K.’s exit progress,” May said in a statement, the Guardian reported.

“We are making it easier for visitors to travel beyond London and experience all of the world-class attractions the U.K. has to offer, to make sure the benefits of this thriving industry are felt by the many and not the few,” she added.

As part of a plan to attract more visitors to the U.K., the prime minister announced plans to relax licensing rules for bed and breakfasts, including allowing them to pick up visitors from train stations.

Seven projects outside London, most of them in the South of England, have been awarded financing from the fund, according to the Guardian.

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Maria Valentina Umer

Nice try, but I doubt she´ll attract many people to the lousy beaches and cold sea water. UK tourism has always been about London´s historical sites and pageantry and nothing else. Scotland has a certain attraction to middle-class Europeans for the country´s castles, misty lakes and legends. Every visitor tries to spot Nessy.
But Southern English beaches? She must come up with more attractions than that. Hopefully, the tourism industry in the UK can advise her. But she is promising this and that without a stategic plan in order to keep her folks quiet after Brexit.

Posted on 8/26/16 | 11:55 AM CET

DanTheMan

@Maria Valentina Umer
Listen to you. Stop talking nonsense. London is the single biggest attraction but is dwarfed by tourism to the rest of the UK as a total. Millions visit Scotland and never go to Loch Ness.

Your current anywhere but Portugal country of residence is Germany which although more extreme is not dissimilar to the UK in many areas for long periods of the year. Stop making stuff up to serve your bitter deluded arguments.

And btw, we love our weather, Britain is fresh, green, luscious and stunningly beautiful because of it.

Posted on 8/26/16 | 12:31 PM CET

Maria Valentina Umer

@DanTheMan
You love your weather, no doubt. But will non-UK tourists do?
I did mention that Scotland attracts middle-class Europeans/Germans, the educated ones whose children have read the British classics and are fascinated by them. They have read Ivanho, the legends of the Holy Grail, and the rest of the classical English literature — just as I did as an educated, middle-class continental European. I am still fascinated by such after my high-school years.

However, cheap tourists from the continent or from Asia will never find favour in English beaches for obvious reasons, also stated. That´s one more reason why the UK without Scotland will not get ahead on tourism. Except for London, of course. But the Change of the Guard also gets old!
How

Posted on 8/26/16 | 1:26 PM CET

DanTheMan

@Maria Valentina Umer

People have never come the the UK for a sunny beach type holiday. There are many destinations infinitely more suited to that. There are other types of tourism.

Asian tourist particularly like a bit of British style pomp and ceremony. And Bicester Village for some reason (hint: not in London)

Posted on 8/26/16 | 3:14 PM CET

Maria Valentina Umer

@DanTheMan
Exactly! Beaches is not what England has to sell for mass tourism. Only a few select appreciate, as I do, the nice, hidden corners of England. But such select tourism is not going to propell England´s economy.
Everybody knows what mass tourists want: you only need to look at your own UK tourists in the continental shores: guaranteed sunny weather, sandy beaches, clubs for entertainment until the wee hours of the night, and adventure in a multicultural motley bunch of drunkards who create nothing but headaches to the local security forces.

Keep these animal UK tourists away! Aren´t they enticed by the lovely sites in England?? Obviously not! Your tourists of the youth variety are creating a lot of damage. Keep them as fruit-pickers in Norwich! Norwich farmers need fruit-pickers after Brexit, and after Romanian adults may no longer be allowed to serve for the so-fine-Englanders.
Keep your spoiled youth within your shores! Train them, and make them contributing members to their society. That´s what the UK has been lacking in for decades!

Posted on 8/26/16 | 4:08 PM CET

DanTheMan

@Maria Valentina Umer
You are working hard to convince that the UK isn’t popular tourist destination. It is in fact the fourth most popular European destination for non-EU tourists behind Spain, Italy and France and 6th for EU residents behind Spain, Italy, France, Greece and Germany. So yes it is an important industry.

Drunken louts are tempted by cheap booze, happy hour and all day opening. You offer it and they will come. You can’t take their money then whinge about their behaviour, you know what they do and what they come for!

Certain parts of Cyprus opted out of this drunken cash-cow and restructured their resort for families, less money but oh so much better. It is a conscious choice.

When I select a holiday destination I look for those tell-tale signs and avoid like the plague. It’s not difficult.

Posted on 8/26/16 | 4:50 PM CET

Maria Valentina Umer

@DanTheMan, 4:50 PM
Far from me to discount the UK as worth visiting! I will next visit my English relatives in St.Alban´s. I addressed the issue of mass tourism as May´s proposed way to curb Britain´s economic woes..
And you´re also right: southern European tourist operators entice hooligans with their open-hours and serving liquor to minors, which is clearly wrong and against the law. But where are the parents or guardians of this UK youth who let them loose?

Posted on 8/26/16 | 5:14 PM CET

DanTheMan

@Maria Valentina Umer

The vast majority are of adult age and responsible for their own actions. I drink alcohol probably once or twice a year so I’m not the best one to analyze the why’s and wherefores.